greater love hath no man
QUESTIONS (cont.) sticks and all other of such furnishings of the tabernacle; the silver sockets for the boards for each board stood on two silver sockets. Then there were the precious jewels that were in the breast plate and on the shoulders of the .High Priest. To build this tabernacle the children of Israel had to have great wealth. And God laid it upon the hearts of the Egyptians to give these things which really were earned by the chil dren of Israel. Out of this stack of questions comes this: “What is meant when it says that ‘for the serpent the dust shall be his meat?’ ” The listener cites Isaiah, chap ter 65, as the source. To begin with, Isaiah 65 is a picture of the Millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ over this world, and dur ing His reign He will restore this world as it was before sin entered into it. In verse 25 of Isaiah 65 we read: “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat . . So you see, the only thing that is not going to be changed in the Millennium is the serpent. The serpent will be allowed to remain just as a warning of what sin did to the original creation and to the first Eden. Comes this question: “What do you think the serpent was like before the fall?. Do you have any idea?” No, I do not know what it was like. However, there was something mysteri ous about it because the one that was behind the serpent was Satan. Satan was to have a medium through which he could communicate his thoughts to Adam and Eve, and it must have been a very beautiful thing. There is a grace about its movements as it glistens in the stm. It may be that it had wings, for when Satan chose a medium of communication he naturally chose the most beautiful, the most perfect, in his judgment, to accomplish his end with Adam and Eve,
( A featured radio illustration) On a bridge which leads to one of the cities of Belgium, there stands the statue of two men, a father and his son, who were heroes in the eyes of their countrymen. Wicked rulers had condemned the two to death for supposed seditious acts, but because of their extreme popularity, no one was found willing to perform the execution. So, the accusers made them an offer that if one killed the other his life would be spared. The son wanted the father to execute him, for he had just begun his life, and was not held in as much esteem by the people as his father. But the father charged the son w ith the duty of carrying on his crusading efforts in his place, and declared that his boy must surely be the executioner. On the appointed day, the city square was jammed with a m illing throng waiting to see the grim spec tacle take place. As the younger man lifted the axe above his head, the crowd became silent, and no one moved. Then, just as he was about to bring it down on the block, he threw it away, and fell to his fath er’s side, shouting, “No, we die to gether! We die together!” The peo ple pressed forward, and the guards were forced to free them both. This story of a father and son’s love for one another cannot even begin to compare with the great love of Christ who gave His life for us, even while we were yet sinners, enemies of His love. Such devotion and affection cannot be told in mere human words. As the sinner yields himself to the Saviour he w ill find in Him divine love w ith attending hope, joy and abounding peace. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). 10
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